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ccakes··on Video game studio called Proletariat declines to recognize union (lol)
I’ve worked in unionised industries in two countries and neither required union membership, it was optional.

I can’t speak for everywhere though. Maybe you can provide a reference showing that your local legislation works this way?

ccakes··on Video game studio called Proletariat declines to recognize union (lol)
It’s cool be be selfish.

Collective bargaining exists to protect people who have less negotiating power than you claim to have yourself. Don’t need it? Cool, don’t use it. Doesn’t mean it’s a bad idea for others.

ccakes··on Hyprland: A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor
I've only ever been able to share XWayland windows - using Chrome under sway
ccakes··on Hyprland: A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor
Correct - without XWayland
ccakes··on Hyprland: A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor
I'm just giving this a try and with xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland (their fork of the wlr portal) I get perfect screensharing in Google Meet using pure Wayland.

That alone is interesting enough to get me to look at switching..

ccakes··on Ask HN: Is 2023 the year chat.company.com starts replacing www.company.com?
> Hallucinations are a real problem right now, and that needs to be solved. But we don’t need the tech to be perfect in order for it to have a massive impact.

As long as the use cases are considered properly.

Consider I hit a pet emergency website that is powered by ChatGPT. I ask it what to do because my dog has just had an encounter with a specific poisonous animal. It gives me advice based on a similar, but slightly different situation and my dog dies.

Alternatively say a telecommunications vendor (or for that matter, many SaaS vendors) implement it instead of detailed product docs. It gives me wrong advice and I misconfigure a router. As a result, an emergency call is mis-routed and someone dies.

AI chat isn't even remotely ready for these scenarios yet and there are still plenty of critical infrastructure services that rely on things like email. Therefore even your basic webmail SaaS isn't a suitable target for this type of tech.

Where could you genuinely deploy it safely?

ccakes··on Inauguration of mainland Europe's first satellite launch complex
Esrange was built back in the 60s, so I guess it makes sense to re-use infrastructure rather than build something brand new
ccakes··on 100 Gbps achieved from space to Earth
Terrestrial radio links are similar in that they can be lower latency than fibre though spectrum concerns can come into play.
ccakes··on Supreme Court leans toward web designer with anti-gay marriage stance
As another poster said - it's more nuanced than that.

Not all that long ago, almost nobody wanted to render services to same-sex couples. The only reason the level of blatant discrimination has (slightly) lessened is because laws were enacted that explicitly protected their rights.

As someone (referring to myself here) who has almost no reason to be discriminated against, it's very easy to imagine that allowing business owners to freely choose who they provide services would be ok. I'd imagine the reality of that scenario would be pretty grim however.

ccakes··on Leaving Spotify for freer pastures
For those going down this path, Funkwhale[1] provides a good user experience with ActivityPub support to join/build a community.

[1] https://funkwhale.audio/

ccakes··on Hurl: Run and test HTTP requests with plain text
Not as usable for testing, but verb.el[1] is a great tool for doing something very similar in org-mode

[1] https://github.com/federicotdn/verb

ccakes··on Tell HN: As a dev, Slack has ruined my life
I know it’s probably not how many developers typically roll, but since working fully remote and living more in chat tools I’ve started to throw emoji around hard.

Originally the inspiration came from a consultant I worked with pre-pandemic who was very liberal with emoji. At first I wasn’t a fan but after a while he wore me down

It’s a simply way to add that missing tone back into a non-verbal message and given the changes in work environment that we’ve all been through, plus a younger generation coming through, emoji usage is definitely “professional” enough for the workplace.

I agree with the parent that speaking to a professional is probably a good idea, but you could also try to jazz up your comms. It can be fun!

ccakes··on CPSC calls for full recall of all Onewheel self-balancing electric skateboards
Admittedly a marketing video but still a pretty cool deep-dive by the company - great watch!
ccakes··on Notmuch – Just an email system
aerc is another alternative CLI mail client

https://aerc-mail.org/

ccakes··on Want to move to Europe? Here are all the digital nomads visas available
I’d love to move (back to) Europe, and on the flip side there isn’t a salary big enough to make me want to relocate to the US
ccakes··on Homelab Foundations: Brocade ICX Switches – Cheap and Powerful 10GbE/40GbE
I’ve used various Brocade products in previous lives and the ICX line is a solid switch. Like another poster, I’d also not considered them for a home lab but definitely will now.
ccakes··on Odroid-H3
ASRock Industrial have a product line but finding resellers can be a challenge.

https://www.asrockind.com/en-gb/4x4

ccakes··on Odroid-H3
https://wiki.odroid.com/odroid-h2/application_note/10_sata_d...

Refers to the H2 so unsure if it also applies to the H3.

ccakes··on Why our Smart Video Doorbell will not be able to support HomeKit Secure Video
https://reolink.com/au/product/reolink-video-doorbell/

Not available yet but I believe they're aiming for this year. I have other Reolink cameras + NVR and it's pretty solid and doesn't rely on cloud at all

ccakes··on Sound
The little touches like being able to switch the entire article to metric (or imperial) are incredibly nice and make it more approachable as a result
ccakes··on Tcl Ported to Go
Would love to find some kind of write up by CZNIC about why they're doing this.

Tcl can still be found in a few places powering some pretty critical infrastructure, I know a few networks running with significant automation being driven with Tcl

ccakes··on Toyota suffered a data breach by accidentally exposing a secret key on GitHub
You can invite by email addr, so the workaround here is only invite corporate email addresses.

If the target user hasn't added their corp email to their profile then they can't be part of the org.

ccakes··on Improving Firefox Responsiveness on macOS
Counter argument - https://www.reddit.com/r/swift/ has posts within the last few hours.

Granted Swift is technically a cross platform language but it feels safe to assume that the vast majority of users are developing for macOS and iOS.

ccakes··on Interactive Submarine Cable Map
Cheaper but typically a longer route which translates to higher latency.

As a standard internet user the difference between 20ms and 24ms might not matter to you but when selling enterprise services, especially around financial institutions (but not exclusively) that 4ms matters. Often it matters enough that the business case for terrestrial cable starts to make sense.

ccakes··on Interactive Submarine Cable Map
At least a handful of the Australian cables don't correctly show the buildings where they terminate.

Source: have worked on and around submarine cables in Aus

ccakes··on Australia gov wants telco Optus to pay for new passports for data breach victims
Most (all?) states have a proof-of-age card which is functionally equivalent to a drivers license for ID purposes.

https://www.sa.gov.au/topics/driving-and-transport/licences/...

ccakes··on Signatures of early fire at Evron Quarry (1.0 to 0.8 Mya)
Canines could fall into this category if you stretch the imagination a little. They initially followed humans around scavenging scraps, some of which would have been cooked.

It seems conceivable that they preferred the cooked food in smaller quantities to hunting themselves for larger prey.

ccakes··on Shrugs.app – A native Slack client for macOS
I think that is just a macOS thing, you can do that with a flight number in Messages.app today.
ccakes··on Cloudflare outage on June 21, 2022
Cell coverage inside datacenters isn't always suitable, occasionally even by-design.
ccakes··on GraphJin – GraphQL to SQL Compiler
> ad-hoc SQL functions in the database

If you use tools like Sqitch, Metagration or any other suitable migration management system then functions in your database stop being scary.

Sqitch: https://sqitch.org/ Metagration: https://github.com/michelp/metagration

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